Related: Cockroach Extracted from Man's Small Intestine — and It Was Still Alive An endoscopy involves a long thin tube being inserted in the mouth to ... the presence of hookworm eggs.

Threadworms aren’t the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 million people worldwide. Infections in the UK are rarer, since hookworms favour a ...

However when the problems persisted doctors carried out an endoscopy—inserting a camera into the gut via the mouth—and found live hookworms crawling in her gut. Tests also showed that ...

During an endoscopy procedure, live hookworms were found inside her small intestine and eggs were later discovered in her stool. Getty Images photo The woman had first gone to the doctor after ...

That’s when they made a startling discovery: Michael was infected by hookworms. “I’m a dentist, and I have a degree in biology — I have dissected things. Science is my gig,” Kelli tells ...

It wasn’t until an endoscopy - a test that looks inside the body - revealed live hookworms in her gut that doctors realised the true cause of her woes. Stool tests confirmed that the hookworms ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals which alter our immune system ...

Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach ... a long thin tube being inserted in the mouth to examine organs up close, the Cleveland Clinic ...

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach.